Report on Manufacturing Industries in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890: TextilesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 - 236 Seiten |
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Aggregates Average number average weekly earnings capital carding mills Carpet mills cassimeres census of 1880 cent Children cloths combing machines Connecticut consumed consumption Cost of materials cotton manufacture cotton warp domestic wool dyeing and finishing EMPLOYÉS AND TOTAL England establishments are distributed fabrics Females above 15 fiber firm members flannels Hampshire hand looms hired property hosiery and knit Illinois important increase Indiana individual establishments Jersey Jersey cloth labor machinery Males above 16 Maryland Massachusetts MATERIALS USED-Continued merino Mohair noils North Carolina NUMBER OF EMPLOYÉS Number of establish number of spindles number of weeks Ohio operations of individual Pennsylvania percentage Pounds power looms PRODUCTS-continued quantity reported Rhode Island running yards shoddy spinning Square yards statistics TERRITORIES textile industries thread total number Total wages United Value of hired Value of products Vermont Virginia weaving WEEKLY RATES weeks employed weft Wisconsin wool manufacture woolen mills worsted mills worsted yarns woven yarn York
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Seite 236 - Includes all products not otherwise classified, and those made by less than three producers, in order that the operations of individual establishments may not be disclosed.
Seite 24 - Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to a Resolution of the House of Representatives concerning the Present Organization of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Seite 226 - twice included" when, for instance, it appears first as " raw silk," in the returns of a throwster, and secondly as '"thrown silk" or "fringe silk," being again reported as raw material in the return of a weaver or fringe-maker.
Seite 173 - ... manufacture, was too apparent to be accorded other than frank avowal, leading to speculation as to chances of the rest of the country in maintaining accustomed superiority. " The geographical distribution of the cotton manufacturing industry is an interesting study...
Seite 12 - An entire cut of cloth will he, thrown back upon him in consequence of mispicks, threads out, or other defects, due to careless weaving. The perils of the dyeing and finishing rooms are even greater. The dyeing of wool fabrics requires what is a distinct art by itself in Europe; and in some branches, such as the indigo fermenting vat, is the roost difticult work in practical chemistry.
Seite 221 - They were not otherwise provided for in the act of 1875. This act superseded all prior statutes in regard to goods made of silk, or of which silk was the component material of chief value.
Seite 174 - ... direction has been effected since 1880. It was remarked that the 1880 census showed for all the States south of the District of Columbia, only 542,048 spindles, and that had all these been concentrated in one State it would have raised that State only to seventh place in point of production capacity. "A remarkable development of manufacturing enterprise in the South, based on the nearness of supplies of raw material, which began ten years ago, had no more reasonable field in which to exercise...
Seite 27 - ... more of the short fiber of the wool substitute. Thin wool coatings require from medium to the finest merino wools; fancy ladies' cloakings, the finest long merino wools, and, in some varieties, mohair, or the wool of the Angora goat; gentlemen's worsted coatings, the finest long meriuo combing-wools. For certain varieties of delaines, coburgs, and cashmeres, ladies...
Seite 168 - ... It will be observed that the average percentage of test responses consistent with the training response decreases from 88.3 per cent to 78.3 per cent as the test combinations are increased in absolute size. The small drop from the second to the third test combination (80.0 per cent to 78.3 per cent) is to be accounted for, in part at least, by the fact that the third test was not given in counterbalanced order, but only after the two series with each of the other two test situaions had been given.